Nyingnam 17
1 Paul okv Silas Ampipolis okv Apollonia bv vngpikla vngtoku, Jius kumkunaam dooku gv Tesalonika lo aatoku.
Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,
2 Paul ninyigv atugv vngdungbv Jius kumkunaamlo vngtoku. Hoka Doonu alu lvum go hv nyitwng gv lvkobv dopam pamgvto Baibel kitap lokv minla,
and Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them and, for three Sabbath Days, he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,
3 okv Darwknv kitap lokv bunua mindimiyin jila mimpa jitoku ho Kristo hinching la okv sito kula turkur kunama. “Si Jisu oogv ngo nonua mimpa jidunv si,” Paul minto, “Si kv Kristo.”
explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."
4 Bunugv meegonv Paul okv Silas gv mingku lo tvvlwk minggv toku okv lvkobv ritoku; vkvlvgabv Grik twngtvnv meego okv anvnyimv rigvdogvnv meegoka, oogv Pwknvyarnvnyi kumnyabo vdwv.
Some were persuaded and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including a number of devout Greeks, and a large number of the leading women.
5 Vbvritola Jius vdwv kavtarv toku okv nyi agar manv vngkarchaakarnv meego vngkum motola okv dopam pamnya lakula alvmanv nyitwng gubv ritoku. Bunu pamtv mvnwng lo makarrikar nyato okv nyi akogv naama palwk jitoku Jason minv angv naam nga okv Paul okv Silasnyi mvdubv kaakar nyala okv bunua nyi apam lo boolin dubv.
But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill- favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 Vbvritola bunua kaapa kuma nvngv, bunu Jasonnyi okv mvngjwngnv meegonyi pamtv gv rigvdogv nvlo boolin chotola okv goktoku, “So nyi vdwv mooku mvnwng lo ridwkriku nvgo! Bunu vjv ngonugv pamtv lo aapvku,
And when they had failed to find Paul and Silas, they began to drag Jason and some of the brethren before the politarchs, shouting. "These fellows who have upset the habitable earth are come hither also.
7 okv Jason bunua ninyigv naam lo doomu toku. Bunu mvnwng ngv Dvbvyachok gv pvbv nga tvvmabv rinia toku, mvvnya toku dvbv kvvbigo dopvkv, vkvgv aminv Jisu.”
"Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
8 Bunu soogv gaam nga nyipam okv pamtv tujupkunam nga tvvsik motola twngtwng rara mvngmu toku.
Both the crowd and the politarchs were disturbed when they heard this,
9 Tujupkunam vdwv Jason okv ajin vdwa ainmorko dorsvrisv nga rimu tokula topu toku, okv vbvrikunamv bunua vngmu nyatoku.
but when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 Kanv sopikda, mvngjwngnv vdwv Paul okv Silas bunyia Beria lo vngmu toku. Vdwlo bunu vngchinam gola, bunu Jius kumkunaam bv vngtoku.
Now the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they got there they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue.
11 Beria gv nyitwng ngv Tesalonika nyitwng nga habia yatoku. Bunu doina tvvnwng alvbv tvvria nyatoku, okv Paul gv minam ngv jvjv gubvri vla bunu Baibel kitap nga alu lokia purila kaanyato.
The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.
12 Bunu mvnwng ngv awgonv mvngjwng nyatoku, okv Grik gv anvnyimv kaibv rigvdogv awgo okv Grik gv nyiga awgunv ka mvngjwng nyatoku.
So many of them became believers, and so did not a few Greeks, women of honorable estate, and men.
13 Vbvritola vdwlo Tesalonika lo doonv Jius vdwv Paul Beria lo Pwknvyarnv gv gaam nga japdokv vla tvvpa namgola, bunu hoka aatoku okv lamrwpato kula okv apam am nvngyaknvngchak toku.
As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.
14 Vjakpigobv mvngjwngnv vdwv Paulnyi svmasa gv agum bv vngmu toku; vbvritola Silas okv Timoti bunyi Beria lo dootoku.
Then the brothers at once sent Paul down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.
15 Paul gv lvkobv vnggvnv vngbom nyi vdwv ninyia Etins bv vngchi gvvtoku okv vbvrikunamv Paul gvlo lvkobv minsar koto kula ho Silas okv Timotinyi lvkobv aamu dokubv baapubv Beria vngkur toku.
Those who were caring for Paul brought him as far as Athens, and there left him, with instructions to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed.
16 Vdwlo Paul Etins lo Silas okv Timotinyi kaaria rilo, hv achialvbv mvngru toku pamtv lo morti achialvgo kaapa tokula.
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
17 Vkvlvgabv ninyia Pwknvyarnv kumnvjonv Jius okv Jentail vdwgv lvkobv kumkunaamlo dopam pamgv toku okv nyitwng nga aludwkibv vngpiknv vdwaka.
He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there.
18 Ipikurian gv meego okv stoik gv tamsarnvnyi larmi sito, mintoku, “so nyi si oguka chima hv ogugo mindu nvdw. Hv ogugo mintv dvnvdw?” Kvvbiv minto, “Hv mintv doonvgo ngonua kvvbi Pwknvyarnv meego,” ogulvgavbolo Paul minjito bunua Jisu gv lvkwng lo okv ninyigv sinam lokv turkur kunama.
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19 Vbvrikunamv Paulnyi hv vnggv toku, Aropagus kvba, doopamlo hoka hv mintoku, “Ngonua minbwk jilabv so anw rinama noogv ngonua tamsarnama.
Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
20 Noogv ngonuam anw bv minjinam nga, okv ngonu chinwngdo soogv tamsarnam si oguvdw,” (
"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."
21 Etins lo nyi mvnwng ngv okv nyebunyi mvnwng gv atugv dwa rilwk dula anwnv ogugo minam am tvvria laka rito okv mimpa laka rito.)
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)
22 Paul pamtv gv kvbadopam kaagia lo dakrap toku okv minto, “Ngo kaadu nonugv Etins lo nyi vdwv achialvbv dormo rinv gubv ridu.
So Paul stood up in the center of Mars Hill, and said. "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects you are remarkably religious.
23 Ngo nonugv pamtv nga vngpitla okv nonugv kumkujoku am ngo kaakunamv oogv yogwngmvrwng lo lvkpv nama kaapa toku ‘Chimanam Pwknvyarnv gv lvgabv’ hv nonugv kumnamjonam go, vbvrikunamv, vbvrilachin hum nonu chimado, si oguvdw ngo nonua vjak minkar jidukunv.
"For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What you are worshiping in ignorance, this I am proclaiming to you.
24 Pwknvyarnv, sichingmooku okv ogumvnwng nga sum pwknv, nyidomooku okv nyiamooku gv Ahtuv okv nyi vdwgv mvnam kumging lo dooma dunv.
"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 Pwknvyarnv ngonu gvlo oguguka mvngma dunv vmalo ngonu ninyia ogugo jila nyudunv hv yabv atuv ngonua saknam turnama okv ogumvnwng nga nyichar mvnwng lo jiya dunv.
"neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26 Nyi ako lokv hv mooku mvnwng nga mvlinto okv minjito sichingmooku mvnwng lokv turdubv. Hv atubongv mvkimvak jito ogolo okv oguaingbv singsv vdw.
"He has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the bounds of their habitation,
27 Ninyia sum ritoku vkvlvgabv ho bunu ninyia kaachin sidubv, okv ninyi chinsu lare bunu ninyigv lvkwng lo mvngnama. Hvjvka Pwknvyarnv ngonu mvnwng gv lokv aduma;
"so that they might seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every on of us;
28 vbv akonv minto, ‘Ninyigv lokv ngonu singdunv okv bidutapdunv okv turmudakmu dunv.’ Si nonugv mimin lvknv meegonv mindunv, ‘Ngonuka ninyigv umvuu ngv.’
"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "‘For we also are his offspring.’
29 Ngonu mvnwng ngv Pwknvyarnv gv umvuu ngv vbolo, ngonu vbv mvngmare hv ain vmalo raaji vmalo vlwng lokv morti bv mvnamgo vla. Hv ogu lokvka manvgo nyi vdwlokv mwnglin nam okv mvlin nam.
"Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
30 Vngnyi konv dwlo, Pwknvyarnv kaabotalikla kaato ogulvgavbolo nyi vdwv chimato ogugo bunu ridunvdw. Vbvritola vjak ninyia minduku ho nyi mvnwng nga mooku mvnwng gvngv alvmanv lokv mvngdin la ninyi gvlo aakur tvku vla.
"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;
31 Pwknvyarnv sichingmooku mvnwng nga nyi akin gvlokv alvrungbv jwngkadaka dukubv alua mvpvripv pvku, okv hv sum kaabwk dukubv rilin jitoku ninyia sikunvnga turkur molaku!”
inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."
32 Vdwlo nyi vdwv, Paul gv oogv sitola turkur kunam gv lvkwngbv japnama tvvpa pvkudw, nyi kvvgonv nyarjito. Vbvritola kvvgonv mintoku, “Ngonu sum tvvria dvre no gvlo lvkodv.”
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
33 Okv vbvrikunamv Paul bunugv doopam lokv lintoku.
So Paul withdrew from them.
34 Nyi meegonv Paulnyi mvngjwng toku okv vngming gvvtoku, apam ho Dionysius, hv kvba gv nyi go, hoka anvnyimv ako aminv Damaris, okv nyitwng kvvbi meegoka.
A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.
